Transcriptinator vs Listenary

Transcriptinator turns your voice into structured notes without sending audio anywhere. RECORD & TRANSCRIBE, FULLY OFFLINE Tap Record. Speak. Get a transcript. Everything happens on your iPhone using open-source Whisper models — audio never leaves your device, and the app works with no internet after initial setup. LEARNS WHO'S SPEAKING Enroll your voice once and Transcriptinator recognises you in every future recording. Add colleagues, family, or interview subjects with one guided sample each. Multi-speaker conversations get labelled automatically. IMPORT EXISTING AUDIO Bring in voice memos, meeting recordings, or any audio file from Files. Transcriptinator decodes WAV, M4A, MP3, AIFF, and more, then processes them the same way as live recordings. PICK YOUR QUALITY TIER - Fast (Whisper base, ~200 MB): quick turnaround for short notes - Balanced (Whisper small, ~600 MB): the everyday default - Accurate (Whisper medium, ~1.4 GB): best quality for interviews and meetings OPTIONAL: BRING YOUR OWN AI Connect your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google to unlock: - Automatic document classification (meeting, todo list, journal, interview, etc.) - Todo extraction with assignees and due dates - Calendar event extraction with dates and locations - Question, decision, and note extraction - Custom extraction rules you write yourself Only text transcripts are sent to the provider you choose. Audio and speaker embeddings never leave your device. The app is fully useful without any AI configured. WHAT YOU'LL SEE - Home: your recordings, tap to play, swipe to transcribe or delete - Recording detail: full transcript with per-speaker chips and tap-to-seek - People: manage voice profiles, rename, merge, or delete - Extractions: todos, events, and notes with one-tap "Add to Calendar" or Share WHY OFFLINE MATTERS - No monthly subscription for transcription - Works on planes, in remote locations, at conferences with poor WiFi - Sensitive conversations (medical, legal, personal) stay on your phone - No account required — install and go Requires ~1 GB of storage for the recommended model bundle plus your recordings. Downloads happen once during setup.

You know you heard it. You just can't find where. Listenary lets you read along with long audio — lectures, interviews, audiobooks — and find the exact moment any phrase was spoken, anywhere in your library. All of it on your device. READ THE SENTENCE YOU'RE HEARING The current sentence highlights and scrolls itself. Keep it to a few subtitle lines, or read the whole thing like a document. TAP A SENTENCE, HEAR IT See something you want to hear again? Tap it and playback jumps right there. No more thumbing the rewind button. SEARCH EVERY RECORDING YOU OWN Search "confirmation bias" and get every moment it was spoken across your whole library, with timestamps. Tap a result and it plays. Substring search works for Korean, Japanese and Chinese, where word spacing isn't reliable. HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE Long-press a sentence to file it under Important, Replay, Unclear, Quote or Idea, and add a note. Review only what you marked. COME BACK THREE DAYS LATER How far it rewinds depends on how long you were away. Resume from your last highlight, a little earlier, or right where you stopped. BUILT FOR LONG FILES A three- to five-hour file is processed in chunks. Start listening as soon as the beginning is ready, and closing the app resumes from the last finished chunk instead of starting over. FULLY ON-DEVICE No account, no uploads, no analytics SDKs. Your audio and transcripts never leave your device. Speech recognition uses Apple's on-device recognition. SUPPORTED FORMATS MP3 · M4A · M4B (DRM-free) Note: protected audiobooks (Audible AAX, Apple Books) are not supported, and the app provides no DRM removal or downloading. It is for files you legally own. LANGUAGES Transcription: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese Interface: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese FREE · All playback (speed, skip, sleep timer, chapters, lock screen controls) · Transcribe 3 titles, first 60 minutes each · Search within the current title · 20 highlights LISTENARY PRO (one-time purchase, not a subscription) · Unlimited transcription · Search across your whole library · Unlimited highlights, notes and export · Customizable smart rewind